Slant Magazine:



http://www.slantmaga...view.asp?ID=547

they're going to start finding music reviewers hung from trees with their heads shoved up their own asses.



oh, wait, their heads are alreaded in their asses.

Dat people and magazine is stupid and dumb. i want kill them.

I only hope the great record-buying public discover for themselves what a stunningly great album it is and then realise what a pile of spineless wank these reviews are. It's just a bunch of coke-addled has-beens who are too scared to do anything but toe their magazine's party line.



These are the same people who have been busy championing whining bilge like Keane and Coldplay. Say no more. :?

hey flaming dead, did you make that siggy with photoshop 8? what program did you use? :-? :D

I'm hoping the public has the drive not to be sheeple at the mercy of other telling them what's good.



I'd love to see the Chems triumph in all this and prove the nay-sayers wrong.



In my book, they already have.

Push the Button is tinged with fatigue, but a decade of LSD has been known to have such side effects.

Funny stuff.

journalist-who-still-wishes-it-was-1997 Escribi�:

Where are all those quirky aural embellishments that turned subsequent listens into treasure hunts? The backwards snare rimshots of ?Hey Boy Hey Girl?? The steel drum lamentation that provides the bitter coda for ?Life Is Sweet?? The coked-up glockenspiel of ?Lost In The K-Hole?? Most of the tunes on Push the Button reveal their secrets on the first or second listen.

This guys needs new ears. Seriously, I think he blew out an eardrum or two in 1997 and hasn't heard anything properly since.

Three years have passed since the last studio album from Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, three years in which it seemed that their best days were long behind them. Both Come With Us and Surrender were seen as pale re-treads of past glories, and while the Brothers singles collection was hugely enjoyable it seemed to mark the end of an era.



So it's a pleasant surprise to greet Push The Button, the Chemicals' fifth studio album and certainly their best effort since Dig Your Own Hole. The usual ingredients are present and correct - from the spacey dance tunes through to the galaxy of star guests, this is certainly Tom and Ed on familiar ground. Yet they sound re-energised and the songs collected here are amongst their best.



The guests range from old friends (Charlatans singer Tim Burgess) to new names (Kele Okereke of 2005's most likely superstars The Bloc Party) and star on some of the best tracks on here. Burgess lends his vocal talents to The Boxer - not the old Simon & Garfunkel classic needless to say - a mighty, thumping number with stabbing keyboard riffs, while Okerake gives Belief a sense of urgency as Tom and Ed sprinkle some classic thumping Chemical magic over the song.



Yet it's not only the old school Chemical Brothers party anthems that work so well on Push The Button. Hold Tight London brings things down a touch with some ethereal vocals from Anna Lynne while the undoubted highlight of the whole album is the simply beautiful Close Your Eyes. Hotly tipped London duo The Magic Numbers guest, lending the track a poignant air - the song slowly builds to a climax until piano chords are mixing with the repeated lyrics "what if it all was to change" and the goosebumps are travelling up and down the listener?s neck. It?s one of the best things the Chemical Brothers have ever done.



Not every track works so beautifully - Left Right, featuring Anwar Superstar (brother of Mos Def) on vocals, is a brave departure for the duo, being an anti-war protest rap song. In an unfortunate case of bad timing however, the vitriolic lyrics about George Bush ("what?s the difference between Bush and Saddam?" asks the song) to a militaristic drum pattern was done much better by Eminem?s Mosh a few months ago, leaving Left Right suffering somewhat by comparison.



To be fair though, that?s about the only mis-step on Push The Button. Whether it be the Grandmaster Flash reference on Come Inside, the apocalyptic Middle Eastern sound of Galvanise or the vocal part on The Big Jump which sounds worringly similar to David Walliams? character Anne from Little Britain, the best moments on this album will put a big smile on your face. Indeed, the delightful Marvo Ging could rival Lemon Jelly for its sheer feel-good factor.



By the time the traditionally epic Chemical Brothers album closer of the seven minute long Surface To Air has built to its explosive conclusion, the duo have conclusively reclaimed their crown as kings of the UK dance scene. With Push The Button, Tom and Ed have rediscovered their magic touch and it?s so good to have them back on form.



- John Murphy



Source: http://www.musicomh....-brothers-3.htm

And it's so good to read another positive review!



It seems like as far as reviews go, there seems to be a split camp here...

My god!



That guy doesn't know the Chemical Brothers!

What the CB have is that you don't know what you'll hear in their new albums, don't know which kind of sound you're going to have, but it's always a good sound!

For me, just as an example, Got Glint? is a new sound and sounds GREAT!



The only thing that I agree with is "...and the extremely irritating ?Left Right?", nothing else.



So for what that magazine says, and for our own good, we should...

LISTEN BRITNEY SPEARS! X-D :P

journalist-who-still-wishes-it-was-1997 Escribi�:

for ?Life Is Sweet?? The coked-up glockenspiel of ?Lost In The K-Hole?? .

Oh and another thing I forgot to point out. What the hell is this "coked up glockenspiel of "Lost In The K-Hole"?



Maybe it's I who needs new ears, because for some reason over the years I never made the connection with the dark slap bass groove of K-Hole and the traditional German instrument mentioned in the article - but I have a hunch this person might have Lost In The K-Hole confused with The Private Psychadelic Reel.



If you're going to make friends, play nice. If you're going to make enemies, play smart.



OK, I'm done with that review! :P

Bah, there is a glockenspiel like thingie in Lost In The K-Hole... I stand corrected! I can't believe I forgot. Bloody Push the Button, pushing every other song in my brain out of existance!!



jesus, I need sleep, but I can't sleep, because it's too hard to sleep when you're going on vacation soon.

Here's another one from Rolling Stone magazine. It's very brief, but at least it's positive:



http://www.rollingst...sion=6.0.12.857



The Chemical Brothers Push the Button (Astralwerks)



It's been a tough season for the former great hopes of electronic music -- the recent Fatboy Slim and the Prodigy releases ranged between middling and drecky -- but there's hope for stadium-ready dance music in the Chemical Brothers' fifth studio album. Push the Button keeps to a formula familiar to followers of the U.K. duo, opening with a block-rockin' break-beat track ("Galvanize," a hip-hop romp with Q-Tip on the mike), closing with an extended jam (the acid-trip carousel soundtrack of "Surface to Air") and, in between, delivering an album full of beat-wise psychedelia. Highlights feature two vocal newcomers: the gentle lilt of Anna-Lynne Williams from Trespassers William lends an affirming beauty to "Hold Tight London," and the urgent yelp of Kele Okereke from Bloc Party makes "Believe" a club-anthem-in-waiting. "I need you to believe!" wails Okereke. And by the end of Push the Button, we do. (BILL WERDE)